PS3 Will Have 1,000 Times Performance of PS2

According to a news release on AsiaBizTech, Shin-ichi Okamoto said, "We are working to create the PlayStation3 game machine so it will have 1,000 times the performance of the PlayStation2." Okamota, senior vice president of the research and development division of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., said this when he gave a keynote speech at the "Microcomputer System & Tool Fair '99" held at Tokyo Big Site from Nov. 10-12.

As indicated by the story, SCE surveyed content developers when they were developing the PlayStation2; the developers said that they would need a performance of 18,000 times that of the PlayStation in order to generate game images in real-time. Sony suggests that the PlayStation2 is 300 times as powerful as the current PlayStation, falling short of what the content developers had wanted. In regards to this, Okamoto said, "We understand the requirement is half met. We would like to realize the goal in the development of our next version, the PlayStation3."